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17-12-2007, 08:29 AM
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| | | Fox encounter
Hi All,
I finally had my very own close encounter with a fox yesterday. I left home at 9:30 and went to Lessness Abbey. There are a couple of small ponds there and I thought I'd see what kind of wildlife they attract. When I arrived there was a crow wading in the shallows, several magpies, a grey wagtail, some chaffinches, a robin and a wren.
Then the crow started kicking up a racket and after a few minutes I realised it was because there was a fox sticking it's nose out of the undergrowth at the edge of the pond. I just stood and watched it for a while. I could only see its head and couldn't get a clear shot because of other branches in the way. Then the fox turned and disappeared and I thought that was it. But no, he came out the other side of the bushes and was walking towards me, so I lifted my camera and took a few shots. He heard the shutter and stopped to look at me then just carried on as if I wasn't there. He skirted around me coming within three or four yards at one point then stopped to have a good scratch. Then he ambled on unhurriedly with me following carefully behind him.
My favourite shots from this encounter are these two...  
...although I wish I hadn't clipped the tips of his ears in the second one.
I had my 80-400mm lens on at the time and these were both taken at the 400mm end. I had to zoom out to 120mm to get the whole fox in this shot... 
Dave P.
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17-12-2007, 08:59 AM
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| | | Re: Fox encounter
Great shots.  |
17-12-2007, 10:56 AM
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Excellent shots, and such a lovely setting. Foxes are strange... some don't seem to mind people at all, others are shy as anything. |
17-12-2007, 12:22 PM
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Brilliant pictures. I bet you were very excited (I would have been). Lovely to see them so well in daylight. I haven't seen ours for a while, but they did take the lamb shank bones I left out last night! |
17-12-2007, 01:43 PM
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what beautiful shot,i love the closeup of his face such a lovely face too,very well done,i bet you were thrilled to bits, heart pounding,because thats how it would have affected me. |
17-12-2007, 09:59 PM
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Thanks everyone! It was definitely one of my highlights of the year.
I forgot to mention how the encounter ended. Chap came striding up to me, dogs yapping at his heels, bellowing at the top of his lungs "HELLO THERE! PHOTOGRAPHING THE WILDLIFE, EH? NOT MUCH OF IT ABOUT IS THERE?"
To which all I could reply was "Not any more there isn't, no". 
Dave P.
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18-12-2007, 09:12 AM
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How lovely and great photos too.
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20-12-2007, 11:59 PM
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What a moment, great shots! |
21-12-2007, 07:26 AM
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Super experience matched by the shots
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21-12-2007, 10:11 AM
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Lovely shots Colin and what an encounter! It could be worth making or erecting a hide somewhere there. | | | |
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